Since September 2024, I have been raising funds and sending them directly to the Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza. They are Iman and Ibrahim, Joury (8), Hamous (6), Marah (4) and Sanad (2). Here they are along with an example of a text exchanged between Iman and me. Hosted by…
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A seminar held at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University on 11 November 2024 with Ronit Lentin, Amani Haydar and myself, and chaired by Juan Francisco Salazar. How do academics and cultural workers draw attention to the collusion by their institutions without falling into the trap…
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Since the start of the genocide in Palestine, a group of staff and students have been organising for Palestine at Western Sydney University. You can find a link to our activities, including the open letter signed by over 430 staff and students here.
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Thanks to the 500+ people who signed the Open Letter coordinated and written By Andrew Brooks (with some inout form me). The letter calls out the Australian Senate’s rejection of critical race theory. It was published in Overland Magazine. The signatories of this letter oppose the attacks on ‘critical race…
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‘As a Jew’ is a phrase I wish I never had to hear again in relation to Palestine. I don’t want to read anymore justifications that the Jewish tradition opposes violent settler colonialism. What is this Jewish tradition? There is no essence of Jewishness outside of its practice and today,…
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In response to attacks on academic freedom against French educators working on race and decolonial issues, I drafted an open letter along with my friend and colleague Gavan Titley, and with the help of Professor Philippe Marliere, signed by over 500 people, and published in Open Democracy. A French version,…
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A speech by decolonial activist, Houria Bouteldja I translated appeared on Open Democracy. Read my preamble: “On 16 February the French ‘new philosopher’ Alain Finkielkraut was verbally abused by some protestors aligned with the Gilets Jaunes (‘Yellow Vest’) movement. They called him a ‘dirty Zionist’ and told him to ‘go…
Comments closedI am hosting this open letter on Peter Tatchell, Censorship, and Criticism written by concerned activists, writers and scholars. The letter has been signed by over 100 people. To add your signature, please email freespeechletter@gmail.com. Here is a link to a press release put out today, February 22 to accompany…
Comments closedDownload the Press Release (London, February 22) – Peter Tatchell’s actions in bullying and inciting a media furor against a student who criticized him in a private e-mail reflect a disturbing intolerance toward dissenting views, said 116 human rights activists and scholars in an open letter published today. The media…
Comments closedI was asked by the Campaign to Stop the Deportation of Luqman Onikosi and Luqman himself to write an article drawing attention to his case and, crucially, to the infiltration of the border into all realms of life. Luqman is adamant that this campaign not be framed in the individualist…
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